Sepik Mask and Flute Stopper: Andrew Kugler Collection

An old Sepik mask and Sepik flute stopper, the flute stopper…
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An old Sepik mask and Sepik flute stopper, the flute stopper was collected in 1967 by Andrew Kugler, a petroleum engineer surveying in the Sepik basin, much of his collection was displayed at the Museum of Primitive Art in New York (later the Rockefeller wing of primitive Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art), he is also mentioned by Douglas Newtown in his book 'crocodile & Cassowary, Sepik river, Papua New Guinea, height 35 - 53 ccm

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